Category: Culture
Promoting “Rational” Suicide by the Elderly
September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day. I used to call the annual event “Invisible Suicide Prevention Day” because it is so often ignored in major media.
Suppressing Science at Brown University
Career anxiety is exactly how heterodox thought is policed and stamped out in the academic world.
Free Speech or “Better Speech”?
What Denyse O’Leary calls “well-intentioned nonsense” will protect no one that needs protecting.
Weikart on C-SPAN: Jefferson, Russell, Hitler, Pianka, and More
Kudos to interviewer Peter Slen who is utterly unreadable as to his own attitudes on any on this.
Unbelievable: Debunking Science and Faith Myths with Historian Mike Keas
Praising science as way to implicitly, or explicitly, club religion over the head is a familiar feature of our culture. It’s not new, either.